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the paper says it used to be better and he cited statistics from the national education national assessment of educational progress. the reality is our public school system, regular public school system has been improving achievement of particularly minority students at a phenomenal rate over recent times. i know you will be skeptical of this because we are so convinced of this story that we never examine the. the reality for example to take the most extreme example, a fourth grade math score for black students and this is the most extreme example, the average score for elementary school students is higher than the average white for 20 years ago. that is a phenomenal improvement. a full standard deviation of improvement in black mathematical scores over the last 20 years ended is almost as good in reading in grade level. where is this idea that our schools are failing and regular public schools need some outside stimulus to improve come from? and comes from a conviction that i don't know where it comes from that our system which is in fact a quite successful system is in a state of collapse
the paper says it used to be better and he cited statistics from the national education national assessment of educational progress. the reality is our public school system, regular public school system has been improving achievement of particularly minority students at a phenomenal rate over recent times. i know you will be skeptical of this because we are so convinced of this story that we never examine the. the reality for example to take the most extreme example, a fourth grade math score...
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educate me to what you think we can do. all the while respecting what we would all like to see achieved in libya which is the establishment of a free and productive democracy. thank you. >> want to >> [talking over each other] >> you go first. >> going to the question, specifically the issue of -- there are two components that need to happen. one is a comprehensive effective plan for security and not just generic meaning you got to get the partners in libya concerned with security and the defense industry and joint chiefs of staff and a couple other agencies and they have a security council of sorts that uni effective discussions building on the tool veiny. a . any intervention from a country -- will have its the implications. there is the dynamic of having an effective force in libya does not really a very strong security force, there is some success. we can't just the negative. in order to carry on what you want which is security from d. a. zero practically when developing the others. in addition to border security and ot
educate me to what you think we can do. all the while respecting what we would all like to see achieved in libya which is the establishment of a free and productive democracy. thank you. >> want to >> [talking over each other] >> you go first. >> going to the question, specifically the issue of -- there are two components that need to happen. one is a comprehensive effective plan for security and not just generic meaning you got to get the partners in libya concerned...
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including the national assessment of education progress. the reality is that our school system, our public school system, the regular public school system and has been improving the achievement, particularly of minority students at a phenomenal rate over recent times. i know you will be skeptical because they are so convinced of this story. the reality is that, for example, to take the most extreme example, a fourth-grade scores for black students, this is the most extreme example, the average score for black students in math today at elementary schools is higher than the average white scored was 20 years ago. that is a phenomenal improvement. there has been a full stamp of deviation in improvement of black mathematics course of the last 20 years. it is almost as good at the eighth-grade level. it comes from the conviction in which i don't know where it comes from. that our system, which is the quite successful system is in a state of collapse. the fact that the average charter school is not only no better, but does less than the average pu
including the national assessment of education progress. the reality is that our school system, our public school system, the regular public school system and has been improving the achievement, particularly of minority students at a phenomenal rate over recent times. i know you will be skeptical because they are so convinced of this story. the reality is that, for example, to take the most extreme example, a fourth-grade scores for black students, this is the most extreme example, the average...
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it's a national program. what we basically said in 1965 and we have said every year since, that yes, education is a local -- elementary and secondary education is basically a local and state function. but we want come in and help those areas that have low tax bases, high proportion of underprivileged kids from low-income families, we want come in and hem because there's one thing we know, a poorly educated child in one state won't necessarily grow up to be a burden in that state. that child can move to another state. and so as a national policy, we said in 1965 and we have said every year since under republican presidents and under democratic presidents, republican congresses and democratic congresses, we have said that title 1 is an important national program, an important national program. the ryan budget if enacted would close more than -- would not close. i would just say that more than 10,000 schools would lose their title 1 funding. well, let's take a look at another important education program, one par
it's a national program. what we basically said in 1965 and we have said every year since, that yes, education is a local -- elementary and secondary education is basically a local and state function. but we want come in and help those areas that have low tax bases, high proportion of underprivileged kids from low-income families, we want come in and hem because there's one thing we know, a poorly educated child in one state won't necessarily grow up to be a burden in that state. that child can...
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security, education, infrastructure, high-value-added research, every single dollar was borrowed." "and half of it was borrowed from foreign countries. that is crazy, crazy. it is a formula for failure in any organization." close quote. that's the man president obama chose to head the debt commission. a businessman who understands the threat this nation faces. we can get off this path. congressman ryan laid out a plan that would get us off this path. we have to get off this pasmgh . and as we head out from this senate to return to our states and visit with our constituents, and as we head into an election, i just would like to ask, is there one senator on the other side of the aisle who can defend to the good people of this country the decision of this body to withhold a budget, withhold a financial plan from the country? can you defend that? can you defend not even attempting to do the fundamental requirement of congress, which is to appropriate the money to run the government, not even bring up a single bill for the second time in the history of the republic? and what about the d
security, education, infrastructure, high-value-added research, every single dollar was borrowed." "and half of it was borrowed from foreign countries. that is crazy, crazy. it is a formula for failure in any organization." close quote. that's the man president obama chose to head the debt commission. a businessman who understands the threat this nation faces. we can get off this path. congressman ryan laid out a plan that would get us off this path. we have to get off this...
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access to higher education is becoming increasingly important in our nation. in 2018, 70% of the jobs in our state, madam president -- minnesota -- will require some postsecondary education. but we must also make sure that access to higher education remains -- stays a positive experience and not a damaging one. colleges and universities need to deliver on the promises that they make to students. and if they don't, students need to be able to hold them accountable. that's why i've introduced this bill today along with senator harkin and six cosponsors, including senator sanders. it would prohibit any school participating in the title 4 federal student aid system from forcing its students to forego access to the courts when they have a valid dispute, and instead forcing them into private arbitration proceedings. this bill is about accountability. it's about the basic american right to seek justice in our court system, a right that is, unfortunately, being denied now to thousands of students today after the landmark supreme court decision in the at&t mow built co
access to higher education is becoming increasingly important in our nation. in 2018, 70% of the jobs in our state, madam president -- minnesota -- will require some postsecondary education. but we must also make sure that access to higher education remains -- stays a positive experience and not a damaging one. colleges and universities need to deliver on the promises that they make to students. and if they don't, students need to be able to hold them accountable. that's why i've introduced...
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and what that means is every single dollar we spent last year on the two wars, on national security, homeland security, education, infrastructure, research, every single dollar was borrowed and half of it was borrowed from foreign countries. that is a formula for failure in anybody's book. and what i want people to do, and what allen and i have been going around the country talking talk to people about we there have to face up to the real colleges. challenges. they aren't foreign aid and nancy pelosi's airplane. but i, i mean, the real problems are -- there are five of them. and i'll describe them really quickly because lots of people have talked about it. i think if we focused on these five, we can get this deficit under control. the first is health care. we do spend twice as much as any developed country in the world on health care and that's true senators, if you talk about it as a percent of gdp or on a per capita basis. and that might be all right if our outcomes were twice as good as anybody else's. if you look at any almost any outcome measures, you know, while we spend twice
and what that means is every single dollar we spent last year on the two wars, on national security, homeland security, education, infrastructure, research, every single dollar was borrowed and half of it was borrowed from foreign countries. that is a formula for failure in anybody's book. and what i want people to do, and what allen and i have been going around the country talking talk to people about we there have to face up to the real colleges. challenges. they aren't foreign aid and nancy...
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force in the nation. >> how would you restore that funding? >> well, you start by looking at the bad decisions that this legislature made, and you start, for instance, looking at the cigarette tax they cut, and you can look at reversing some of those bad decisions, and restore money that way. you look at the fact that they laid off about 30% of the auditors in the department of revenue meaning we lost somewhere in the neighborhood of $15 million to $20 million in revenues this year because we don't have a collection system that's fair and complete. if you look at those things and the growth we're seeing in the bpt revenues, and you look at, perhaps, one high end, highly regulated casino that might be able to bring us $60 million of revenue, you can do that. this is an ongoing step-by-step process. it's not easy. what the legislature did to the state is a lot, and it's going to take time to bring us back, but we can. >> thank you. we'll wrap up that segment of the forum, and we now move on to the next portion of the forum, the lightning run. no
force in the nation. >> how would you restore that funding? >> well, you start by looking at the bad decisions that this legislature made, and you start, for instance, looking at the cigarette tax they cut, and you can look at reversing some of those bad decisions, and restore money that way. you look at the fact that they laid off about 30% of the auditors in the department of revenue meaning we lost somewhere in the neighborhood of $15 million to $20 million in revenues this year...
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education, science, technology, engineering and math so that our graduates can get good jobs, so that they can compete in a global economy. how we address these issues will shape the next 100 years in our state, but i'm sure of one thing: we have a blend of cultures and backgrounds like nowhere else. it has helped bring us where we are today. it will help take us from we need to go tomorrow. the vitality and creativity of our people is as strong as ever. working together, we will continue to meet the challenges of our state and our nation. and this year of our centennial, we look back to our unique history and we look forward to a bright future. and i thank -- i thank the senator, senator paul, for allowing me to finish my statement. i appreciate very much your courtesies and with that i yield the floor. mr. paul: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from kentucky. mr. paul: i'm going to tell you the story today of a love affair it's a story that is a steamy one, it's a story that of illicit behavior, of treachery, and of gluttony. it's a story that involves intrigue and
education, science, technology, engineering and math so that our graduates can get good jobs, so that they can compete in a global economy. how we address these issues will shape the next 100 years in our state, but i'm sure of one thing: we have a blend of cultures and backgrounds like nowhere else. it has helped bring us where we are today. it will help take us from we need to go tomorrow. the vitality and creativity of our people is as strong as ever. working together, we will continue to...
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design, implementation and execution and evaluation of education were worse development programs. as one of the nation's leading experts on employment and training programs targeting displaced -- dislocated workers and other unemployed individuals. he's also the president-elect of the association for public policy and management. betsey stevenson, by the way, pose to my far right. betsey stevenson sitting in the middle is an associate professor of public policy at the gerald r. ford policy at the university of michigan. among her, many pastoral she served as the chief economist of the u.s. department of labor from 2010 to 2011. she as you might've guessed a labor economist. she's published widely in leading economic journals about the impact of public policy from the labor market with a focus on women and families in the body of subjective well-being for policy analysis. some of you may also know her from her many media appearances among other things. she's a columnist for bloomberg news. can toske to my right is the associate dean of the captains will -- college of business at th
design, implementation and execution and evaluation of education were worse development programs. as one of the nation's leading experts on employment and training programs targeting displaced -- dislocated workers and other unemployed individuals. he's also the president-elect of the association for public policy and management. betsey stevenson, by the way, pose to my far right. betsey stevenson sitting in the middle is an associate professor of public policy at the gerald r. ford policy at...
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would be something that we as a nation would have a lot of trouble living with. we certainly hope so as an american. likewise, for the 20 something and early thirtysomething who want to achieve a different afghanistan and have it within their capability. yes, there is enough time for them to do so. so, for those reasons, and i can go on, we need to maintain focus and remember the past. we need to make the commitment and the investment for our national security, and i defined national security has also encompassing very much our moral and human values. let us not lose sight. i haven't covered the region because he would have literally have given me the hook but i would be happy to talk about iran, and of course particularly pakistan. [inaudible] will cover short time is left for questions. [applause] >> we have a few minutes of questions. i want to give people a chance to ask them. if you could be specific [inaudible] can use the microphone, please. >> it is good to see you again and listen to the conversation. i have been meeting the ambassador every time i visit
would be something that we as a nation would have a lot of trouble living with. we certainly hope so as an american. likewise, for the 20 something and early thirtysomething who want to achieve a different afghanistan and have it within their capability. yes, there is enough time for them to do so. so, for those reasons, and i can go on, we need to maintain focus and remember the past. we need to make the commitment and the investment for our national security, and i defined national security...
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that educate their women and girls end up being more successful. [applause] and today i want to discuss an issue that relates to each of these challenges. it out to concern every person, because it is a debasement of our common humanity. a..to concern every community because it tears at our social fabric. it ought to concern every business, because it distorts markets. it ought to concern every nation because it endangers public health, public health in fuels violence and organized crime. i'm talking about the injustice, the outrage of human trafficking which must be called by its true name, modern slavery. [applause] now, i do not use that word slavery lightly. it evokes obviously one of the most painful chapters in our nations history. but around the world, there is no denying the awful reality. when a man, desperate for work, finds himself in a factory or in a fishing vote or in a field working, toiling for little or no pay and beaten if he tries to escape, that is slavery. when a woman is locked in a sweatshop or trapped in a home as a domestic
that educate their women and girls end up being more successful. [applause] and today i want to discuss an issue that relates to each of these challenges. it out to concern every person, because it is a debasement of our common humanity. a..to concern every community because it tears at our social fabric. it ought to concern every business, because it distorts markets. it ought to concern every nation because it endangers public health, public health in fuels violence and organized crime. i'm...
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we tell our tuition increases to the lowest in a nation. we have expanded dramatically our a-plus program more than 150 schools have been added to that scholarship program. 65 more students now can compete for those two year tuition free scholarships. the smart kids that have an opportunity to stay here in the show me state we're out there recruiting them to get them and we have worked hard to get strategic funding into the higher education since yesterday i announced an additional million dollars of nursing dollars that is where to go to expand nursing facilities, and noticed what we've done in the last three years carrying for the missourians initiative $40 million to get over 1,200,000,000 more medical degrees for jobs that exist right now. so strategic investments like the innovation campus which is insured and the time training for tomorrow and more health wins focusing the dollars we have and getting funding in the schools that can get a direct output is important. let's go to the next question for bill miller and this will go first t
we tell our tuition increases to the lowest in a nation. we have expanded dramatically our a-plus program more than 150 schools have been added to that scholarship program. 65 more students now can compete for those two year tuition free scholarships. the smart kids that have an opportunity to stay here in the show me state we're out there recruiting them to get them and we have worked hard to get strategic funding into the higher education since yesterday i announced an additional million...
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we are making decisions at a large national level about how we want to out money and what we are expecting people to shoulder the burden of at home not to mention child care which doesn't get pulled into that as well as vacation time. if i had five weeks of vacation on would be happy to spend a week of that tending to the garden and things like that, so i think it's important to make sure people are getting decent wages and develop a way to talk about food so people would appreciate it and don't think it's worth less but we have to contextualize the discussions in terms of what life is like for a lot of people in the u.s. right now. >> part of this thing we have to do is see it as an economic political story. it's a anthropology, sociology. we tend to look at it. >> unfortunately how we are out of time. i am getting signals from somebody over there. thank you all for coming and ton th4oe panel. [applause] stomach every that there are books for sale here by me and also amanda and jim and annia are wonderful writers and everyone should talk to the reverend because she is awesome. [applause]
we are making decisions at a large national level about how we want to out money and what we are expecting people to shoulder the burden of at home not to mention child care which doesn't get pulled into that as well as vacation time. if i had five weeks of vacation on would be happy to spend a week of that tending to the garden and things like that, so i think it's important to make sure people are getting decent wages and develop a way to talk about food so people would appreciate it and...
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my parents gave everything they had to the education of their children. i have four brothers. they sent me from early childhood to a french school. i was raised part of my years in iran, but by catholic nones and part of it in [inaudible] and . >> in france? >> in french in iran. in iran. we had wonderful coeducational school. run by french people. some nuns some secular people. >> were you parents wealthy? >> they were not exceptionally rich, but yes, they blocked to -- belonger to upper mid class. >> would you consider your family to be a secular family or a devout family? >> well, i don't see life as binary opposite [inaudible] if you would allow me to say don't mean touch me. my parents were both muslim. my brother was not a practicing muslim. i have never seen her pray or fast. by mother wasn't a practicing muslim. she prayed, she fasted, she was [inaudible] and she wrote liberated women. i consider myself a statement of women, and i think my first teacher was my mother. >> when did you come to the united states? why where did you go to university? >> i arrived in the uni
my parents gave everything they had to the education of their children. i have four brothers. they sent me from early childhood to a french school. i was raised part of my years in iran, but by catholic nones and part of it in [inaudible] and . >> in france? >> in french in iran. in iran. we had wonderful coeducational school. run by french people. some nuns some secular people. >> were you parents wealthy? >> they were not exceptionally rich, but yes, they blocked to --...
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he has a masters degree from national war college. what a loss to our country. our diplomatic corps is filled with admirable and dedicated public servants, and the four americans who lost their lives yesterday exemplified the courage and sacrifice that happens every day in diplomatic posts around the globe. they learn the language, they live with the people where they go. as i've indicated, eiffel traveled to many of the american embassies abroad. i've always been so impressed and grateful for the leadership and i communicate that to them every chance i get. i'm so -- we're so fortunate to have had for the last three and a half years hillary clinton leading the state department. i've indicated ambassador stevens was not a political appointment -- appointee. he was a foreign service officer, as i indicated served in the peace corps, spent his life giving of his time and his talents to promote democracy around the world. i supported president obama's directive to provide whatever resources are necessary to keep our personnel in libya safe. i'll continue to monitor
he has a masters degree from national war college. what a loss to our country. our diplomatic corps is filled with admirable and dedicated public servants, and the four americans who lost their lives yesterday exemplified the courage and sacrifice that happens every day in diplomatic posts around the globe. they learn the language, they live with the people where they go. as i've indicated, eiffel traveled to many of the american embassies abroad. i've always been so impressed and grateful for...